SZA released her last album over a year ago, yet its popularity continues to rise — and the numbers prove it.
According to a tally by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) shared on Tuesday (February 20), the Top Dawg Entertainment superstar got seven new gold and platinum certifications. Each was for a song was released as part of 2022’s SOS.
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“Open Arms” featuring Travis Scott, “Seek & Destroy” and Ghost In The Machine” featuring Phoebe Bridgers all reached platinum status for the first time (meaning each cut sold over 1,000,000 units), whereas “I Hate U” and “Snooze” went three and four times platinum respectively. Most notably, “Good Days” attained 6x platinum status.
Additionally, “Conceited” has been certified gold, with 500,000 units sold.
SZA nabs 7 more gold & platinum plaques for "SOS" songs 👏 pic.twitter.com/86KU6nIjPL
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) February 20, 2024
In similar news, Twista’s classic “Slow Jamz” finally achieved platinum certification last month, just a few days after its 20th anniversary. The track was officially honored with the award in late January.
On the same day, “Overnight Celebrity” and Kamikaze also went double platinum. The latter went platinum the first time back in 2004, soon after its release.
Twista has been a staple within the Hip Hop community for the best part of 35 years.
Speeding out the gate in the early ’90s with his mesmerizing, rapid-fire flow — which in 1992 earned him the title of World’s Fastest Rapper, according to the Guinness Book of World Records — he took the underground by storm before kicking things into overdrive, thanks to his show-stealing guest verse on Do Or Die‘s 1996 Rap-A-Lot Records classic “Po Pimp.”
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This breakthrough set the scene for the success that would come with the Chicago rapper’s platinum-selling third studio album, Adrenaline Rush.
By his own admission, the 1997 LP established him as “a real rapper” and helped validate rappers from his hometown. “It meant you had to accept that artists from Chicago could spit,” he told HipHopDX.
But despite the accolades that came at the hands of Adrenaline Rush, it was his 2004 album Kamikaze that catapulted Twista into a whole other stratosphere — and probably a whoe new tax bracket, too.
